PYELOGENIC DIVERTICULUM OR CALYCEAL DIVERTICULUM

Percutaneous Treatment of Stone-containing Calyceal Diverticulum

Resumen.OBJETIVO: Presentar el tratamiento percutáneo del divertículo calicial asociado a litiasis de localización posterior y resaltar la importancia que ha cobrado en los últimos tiempos el tratamiento endourológico, mínimamente invasivo, para este tipo de patología. MÉTODOS: Debido a la presencia de litiasis múltiple intradiverticular y sintomatología infecciosa recurrente asociada, se deci...

A novel approach to the treatment of a calyceal diverticulum

Our report details a robotically assisted laparoscopic calyceal diverticulectomy in a 14 year old female. This novel approach has not previously been described in the pediatric population. Our patient presented with hematuria and flank pain after an episode of blunt trauma. Robotically assisted laparoscopic diverticulectomy was successfully performed and the patient discharged home the followin...

Disfiguring abdominal mass due to a huge extraordinary calyceal diverticulum.

The etiology of pyelocaliceal diverticulum is believed to be congenital.(2,4) Calyceal diverticulum seen in the upper (70%), mid (12%), or lower (18%) calyx, arises frequently from the posterior aspect of the kidney and is usually unilateral. Although the typical calyceal cyst is smaller than 1 cm,(5) some larger ones are occasionally detected. Here, we report a huge extraordinary 18 × 16 cm ca...

Bicornuate Zenker’s Diverticulum

Killian-Jamieson Diverticulum: Cervical Oesophageal Diverticulum.

Killian-Jamieson (K-J) diverticulum is an outpouching from the lateral wall of the proximal cervical oesophagus and is less commonly encountered compared to Zenker's diverticulum (ZD). These diverticulae arise between the fibers of the cricopharyngeus muscle superiorly and longitudinal muscle of the oesophagus inferiorly. In this report we present a case of a symptomatic Killian Jamieson divert...